Notes

1. Imported comments into Wordpress

Setting up Wordpress for a labmate's blog took less than five minutes
(as advertised), and importing the RSS feed from MSN spaces was a
breeze. Grabbing the comments was another matter, though, and my Perl
is embarrassingly rusty now. I ended up piping the individual blog
pages to a command-line Perl script that spit out SQL code.

Sigh.

コンピュータがこの会社に導入されつつあります。 Computers are being introduced into this company.

2. Five lessons learned from last week

Research groups are good. The lively exchange of ideas will inspire
and support me, and besides, group meetings often have food. It's
worth postponing my individual interest in personal information
management if I can't find other people who are working on the same
area.

I'm good at networking and relating to people quickly. I'm still a
little shy, but I'm starting to be good at remembering names and
faces, and people here don't mind helping someone get settled in.

A personal organizer makes me feel more on top of things. If I can
find a ring-bound paper organizer with the same structure as my
current planner, I'll switch to it. I really appreciate having
weekly and daily goals, and might prepare my own templates if I
can't find an organizer that normally does that.

I can write 800 words easily once I get going. I prefer writing in
one go instead of filling out an outline because the former feels
more like writing e-mail to someone, and I can get pretty
long-winded in e-mail.

3. Settled in and ready to watch my birthday video

For my birthday and send-off party, a bunch of my friends got together
and made a video that I could bring with me to Canada. I haven't
watched it yet. I thought I shouldn't do it while I was still settling
in, while I still wasn't quite sure that this was a good idea.

I'm going to watch it later. I think I've gotten the rhythm of things
and I've found little sources of joy here.

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